SYNOPSIS

chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]

chroot OPTION

DESCRIPTION

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

--userspec=USER:GROUP

specify user and group (ID or name) to use

--groups=G_LIST

specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

If no command is given, run '${SHELL} -i' (default: '/bin/sh -i').

AUTHOR

Written by Roland McGrath.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

Report chroot translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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chroot(2)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'